Of course Paul Flynn thinks those awards were rigged - the people he hates won. If Ken Livingstone had won he wouldn't be batting an eyelid.

Far more disturbing is his post above in which he pretty much claims that anyone happy to see Hain go is a racist. Surely there are rules against MPs effectively libelling large chunks of the population.

Well, these "lefties" are hardly falling into step behind Boris, are they? Most of them explicitly disown him. They should be backing the really progressive candidate, who will reject illiberal identity politics and communalism and govern in the interests of all Londoners.

you occasionally in your life hear about a new concept in physics which knocks your socks off - this new work on unparticles by respected (as opposed to nutter) physicist Howard Georgi is one of these. This is the guy who came up with Supersymmetry, one of the great (though unproven) theories of modern physics. His latest ideas are being taken very seriously. We live in a strange universe wih or without politics...